It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“He was burdened, poor Strether—it had better be confessed at the outset—with the oddity of a double consciousness. There was detachment in… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“upon, having—as I at least supposed—a life of his own and tastes and habits which had long since diverted him from the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...he felt the whole vision turn to darkness and his very feet give way. His head went round; he was going; he… — Henry James Copy Share Image
...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Everything he wanted was comprised moreover in a single boon--the common unattainable art of taking things as they came. He appeared to… — Henry James Copy Share Image
You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“He had thought, no doubt, from the day he was born, much more than he had acted; except indeed that he remembered… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...though leaving him always to remark, portentously, on his probably having formed a relation, his probably enjoying a consciousness, unique in the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“The great fact all the while however had been the incalculability; since he had supposed himself, from decade to decade, to be… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I don't know why we live—the gift of life comes to us from I don't know what source or for what purpose;… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“He had thought himself, so long as nobody knew, the most disinterested person in the world, carrying his concentrated burden, his perpetual… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share Image
